Website design and e-commerce platform provider Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow before market open. Here's what investors should know.
Last quarter Wix reported revenues of $355 million, up 8.13% year on year, in line with analyst expectations. It was a decent quarter for the company, with very strong guidance for the next year.
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This quarter analysts are expecting Wix's revenue to grow 8.11% year on year to $369.3 million, slowing down from the 12.3% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.16 per share.
Majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last thirty days, suggesting they are expecting the business to stay the course heading into the earnings. The company only missed Wall St's revenue estimates once over the last two years, and has on average exceeded top line expectations by 0.89%.
Looking at Wix's peers in the sales and marketing software segment, some of them have already reported Q1 earnings results, giving us a hint what we can expect. Shopify delivered top-line growth of 25.3% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 5.06% and VeriSign reported revenues up 5.04% year on year, missing analyst estimates by 0.8%. Shopify traded up 21.2% on the results, VeriSign was flat on the results. Read our full analysis of Shopify's results here and VeriSign's results here.
Tech stocks have been facing declining investor sentiment in 2022 and while some of the software stocks have fared somewhat better, they have not been spared, with share price declining 3.05% over the last month. Wix is down 13.1% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $106.5, compared to share price of $79.
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